| 单词 | pseudoscience |
| 例句 | But his mind was also full of pseudoscience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 193os, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the “unfit” from the genetic pool. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Among other things, this meant rooting out pseudoscience. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The best antidote to astrology in particular and to pseudoscience in general is, as Carl Sagan has written, real science, whose wonders are as amazing but have the added virtue of probably being real. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Conditional Probability, Blackjack, and Drug Testing One needn’t be a believer in any of the standard pseudosciences to make faulty claims and invalid inferences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Where pseudosciences fail is in not subjecting their conclusions to a test, in not linking them in a coherent way to other statements which have withstood scrutiny. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the pseudoscience of eugenics, whose many followers believed they could improve the human species through careful breeding. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z —William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like many other pseudosciences, numerology is ancient, and acquires some respectability from its religious associations. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is certainly not the place to argue whether or not Freudianism and Marxism should be deemed pseudosciences, but a tendency to confuse factual statements with empty logical formulations leads to sloppy thought. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Astrology is a pseudoscience—a claim, in the absence of good evidence, that the other planets affect our everyday lives. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As in the chapters on coincidence and pseudoscience, we see that the desire to filter and emphasize information is at odds with the desire to obtain a random sample. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Numerology Less worrisome than inaccurate tests is numerology, the last pseudoscience I want to discuss, and my favorite. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These matters are not merely academic, and there is a direct way in which the mass media’s predilection for dramatic reporting leads to extreme politics and even pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Atchley’s initial response was that intelligent design qualifies as “pseudoscience.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Numerology, especially in its soothsaying and divinatory aspects, is in many ways a typical pseudoscience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Less controversial is the contention that there are no clear-cut, easy algorithms that allow us to distinguish science from pseudoscience in all cases. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The poison comes from the fact that they are wrapping the whole thing up in pseudoscience,” Yeo says. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z There’s just no need to carefully walk an audience through the preposterous pseudoscience whereby the heroes are supposed to have turned into rocks or flame or whatever. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The books are a combination of New Age-style jargon, pseudoscience, motivational bromides, health tips and racial theory. Cosmo Setepenra, a.k.a. Baton Rouge police shooter Gavin Eugene Long, revealed his 'laws of the universe' in three self-published books 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z But this shift can also be attributed to the way women have taken charge of the industry, using real talk to sell wellness rather than pseudoscience, and empowerment as opposed to sexualization. How sex toys went from “sleazy” to “empowering” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z He reveled in a swashbuckling censoriousness, implementing what he called a “Literary Pure Food Act,” stamping a skull and crossbones onto the frontispiece of pseudoscience books he deemed so iffy that they were dangerous. An Epic Blaze Propels Susan Orlean’s ‘The Library Book’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z There’s no evidence that he knew of the daguerreotypes, but he spoke publicly against pseudoscience, and, like Sojourner Truth, cannily publicized his image as a counternarrative to racist portrayals. The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Colicchio named his restaurant for two phrenologists who practiced their pseudoscience in the building. Tom Colicchio Opens Fowler & Wells at the Beekman Hotel 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z To hear this art form – the sweet pseudoscience – dismissed as “whatever” by Foreman will surely send him up the wall. George Foreman fighting Steven Seagal in Vegas? It’s the least we deserve 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In practice, though, it’s a pseudoscience focused on human myths. Tracking ‘Strange Beasts of China’ With Booze, Smokes and Sleuthing 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s him advocating for the scientific way of thinking and the scientific method, and it’s both imaginative and disciplined, but it’s a way to be critical and skeptical and watch out for pseudoscience. Jeff Goldblum Goes Wild With Wes Anderson and Thelonious Monk 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He paid a blacksmith to create an iron with a skull and crossbones brand, which he stamped into the frontispiece of “pseudoscience” books. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Nor did theories of personal divinity, goofy pseudoscience, communication with the dead or prophecies of worldly glory distinguish these spiritual entrepreneurs. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Contemporary white supremacy is a mishmash of old anti-Semitic tropes, racist pseudoscience and bizarre fantasia — what Lavin calls a “bigot’s pastiche.” An Undercover Trip Into the Rageful Worlds of Incels and White Supremacists 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z No to detoxing, a pseudoscience word that means nothing. No to Pseudoscientific Diets! Yes to Less Stress About Food! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “Ungovernable” serves as a reminder that pseudoscience is hardly a relic of the past. Review | Turpentine for tummy trouble? An entertaining look at Victorian-era parenting advice. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Dud is enchanted by the idea of the musty club, with its lingering air of secrets and rituals once kept by its members — throne rooms, inner sanctums, alchemy and pseudoscience. Review | ‘Lodge 49’ reminds us that sometimes TV shows — like life — can just be weird 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Autointoxication was one of the most pervasive and enduring concepts in the long, bloated history of medical pseudoscience. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z Exhibits explore the pseudoscience of mythological creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti. Five Places to Go in Portland, Me. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Start a conversation about wine or coffee with the wrong person and get ready for a lecture packed with pseudoscience, judgmental snobbery and personal observations passed off as industry gospel. ‘It’s Not You, It’s Brie:’ Blessed are the cheesemakers 2013-01-02T22:44:37Z A recent study found the espousal of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and belief in the paranormal turn out to be highly correlated with one another. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The premise can be taken literally, as an adventure in pseudoscience, or metaphorically, expressing an inchoate desire for a new German order founded on modern innovation and medieval magical thinking. Alchemy Amok in ‘Gold’ and Its Offspring, ‘The Magnetic Monster’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z It is a pseudoscience like astrology, valuable to those who choose to place stock in it. Which high to buy? How to decode labels when shopping for weed 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s a shelf well stocked with blockbusters from recent years: substitute “set pieces” for “indecipherable pseudoscience” and you’ve got the gaping pitfall that both Interstellar and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus tumbled down. The never-ending story: why are Oscar movies often so long? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The film’s moody textures and atmospheric unease goes hand in hand with the pseudoscience, emblematic as it is of a yearning for certainty in a dark and infinitely mutable world. ‘Moon, 66 Questions’ Review: Daddy Issues 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But were Wiley’s tests of additives like saccharine and sodium benzoate — whose health effects still remain controversial — sound science or pseudoscience? The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Photograph: Bartaku While some might dismiss projects like this as pseudoscience, it is being eagerly received in the worlds of industry and research. Textile futures: the living shoe and the strawberry plant that grows lace 2013-01-23T15:57:00Z When we think of vaccine-hesitant women, McGuire said, the women we immediately picture are privileged peddlers of pseudoscience disguised as secret beauty and wellness hacks. Perspective | Why might women be less eager to get the coronavirus vaccine? An investigation. 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Today, it’s mostly considered the province of women’s magazines and Instagram memes, at best a harmless fiction and at worst a pernicious pseudoscience. Astrology Is Hard, Even if It’s Fake 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z This is utterly specious nonsense, of course, and one of the great delights of "The Lost Time Accidents" is how meticulously Wray advances this pseudoscience, to the point where it's almost convincingly real. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z So what’s the balance of science and pseudoscience around Daylight Savings Time? Daylight Savings kills sleep: Will it kill you? 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Various 20th-century crackpots intent on outlawing pregnancy termination turned to this myth and wrapped it in pseudoscience. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In fact, at trial they were exposed as peddlers of unreliable pseudoscience – veteran antiabortion campaigners seeking to justify restrictions on abortion by any means necessary. Meet Vincent Rue, the man behind the pseudoscience of abortion restrictions 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z I consider this pseudoscience, or just plain nonsense. Perspective | Ask Amy: Worker wonders how to respond to slur 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z And then he segues to talking about pseudoscience and some of the questionable theories of the 1800s. Bloodletting, voodoo and opium: New Orleans museum spotlights medical methods of the past 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Harker is aware there exists no simple litmus test that distinguishes science from pseudoscience. The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Magritte declined to talk about his mother’s death, even privately, and dismissed psychology as a pseudoscience. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z There’s a whole lot of hogwash in “Secret of Water,” a cheesy documentary stuffed full of pseudoscience masquerading as profound truth. Review: ‘Secret of Water’ Studies Liquid as an Archive of History 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “I wanted to keep the show in the context of real science, not new ageism or pseudoscience.” Solar eclipse: Artists turn to science in rendering the emotion of past eclipses 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The pseudoscience of the day classified the facial and physical characteristics of criminal types — and Lord help anyone who happened to be swarthy or low-browed or Jewish. Review | Sherlock Holmes may not have been a real crime-fighter, but his creator was 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z The series, with its disquisitions on bodily humors and “the great American evil — indigestion,” shows Whitman’s long-known immersion in the health science, or pseudoscience, of his era. Walt Whitman Promoted a Paleo Diet. Who Knew? 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But now, the pseudoscience isn’t as much of a taboo as it used to be. How app culture turned astrology into a modern obsession 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “Even though everything we’re doing is sort of pseudoscience, I wanted it to be based on real science,” Mr. Feig said. ‘Ghostbusters’: Then and Now 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “From a theoretical point of view these things are possible, but in terms of clinical claims they are way ahead of the curve here. It’s simultaneously really exciting science but also premature pseudoscience.” How do women really know if they are having an orgasm? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Hong's argument that this was "pseudoscience" did not prevail, and the man was deported. Huntington Library's 'Y.C. Hong' show hails Chinese American pioneer 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z But sometimes they also represent spiritual transformation through the pseudoscience of alchemy. Wonderfully weird 'Branchini Madonna' at the heart of an engrossing Getty show 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Unlike those popular films, however, this one avoids new-agey pseudoscience and focuses on life-changing wisdom from a variety of credible experts. 'People V. The State of Illusion': making case for self-help message 2012-03-15T20:56:05Z Haldane put himself through disgraceful intellectual contortions to defend Stalinist pseudoscience. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z In September, over 100 consciousness researchers signed a public letter condemning one of the most popular theories of consciousness—the integrated information theory—as pseudoscience. Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z And lastly, while there was still pseudoscience, the majority of people didn’t mount a collective effort to say it was “a fake disease.” The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z On the surface, the problem here is that both Morrow and Salant are promoting medically dangerous pseudoscience. Autism is not "demonic" or a mistake, despite what some Christian pundits claim 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z “I think it’s inflammatory to describe IIT as pseudoscience,” says neuroscientist Anil Seth, director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex near Brighton, UK, adding that he disagrees with the label. Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In 2017, he worked with a pseudoscience website called Gaia.com to again claim that he had found a mummified alien, a claim that also did not pan out. Were "alien mummies" really revealed in Mexico? Here's what we know 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Here are her 27 best karaoke songs, according to pseudoscience. L.A., here’s how to win Beyoncé's mute challenge. The experts weigh in 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z But here are the 22 best of the best, according to pseudoscience. The ultimate Beyoncé karaoke power rankings 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Since the early 1990s, Bigelow has bankrolled a voluminous stream of pseudoscience on modern-day UFO lore—investigating everything from crop circles and cattle mutilations to alien abductions and UFO crashes. How Wealthy UFO Fans Helped Fuel Fringe Beliefs 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Although the letter doesn’t clearly define pseudoscience, Lau notes that a “commonsensical definition” is that pseudoscience refers to “something that is not very scientifically supported, that masquerades as if it is already very scientifically established.” Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Only a few years ago, using Twitter “became almost the norm,” says Timothy Caulfield, an expert in science communication at the University of Alberta and a veteran debunker of pseudoscience. Column: Scientists used to love Twitter. Thanks to Elon Musk, they're giving up on it 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Ever since the 2000s, climate change deniers have been forcefully peddling their pseudoscience to the political mainstream, an astonishing feat given the irrefutable evidence for ecosystem collapse all around us. What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The mistake Hotez dodged, and I made —no matter how well-meant—was to participate in an adversarial format that presents science and pseudoscience as equals, creating a false balance between truth and lies. Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the Public 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z “You should never equate, morally or practically, true science and pseudoscience or quackery,” says John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z “The most important thing for me is that we don’t make our hypotheses small and banal in order to avoid being tarred with the pseudoscience label.” Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In addition to convincing millions that pseudoscience is the real deal, these interest groups confuse the issue for millions of other well-intentioned but scientifically illiterate Americans. Climate change denial hit its stride in the Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today's climate disaster 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Roosevelt's ideas were primarily based in eugenics, the pseudoscience of controlling human reproduction to ensure that genetic traits deemed desirable were passed on. Theodore Roosevelt: The "progressive" president who sounded a lot like Donald Trump and Hitler 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z In one brief, medical associations questioned the reasoning behind a ruling by the federal judge in Texas, saying it relied on “pseudoscience and on speculation.” Fifth Circuit Judges Hear Arguments in Abortion Pill Case 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “Common ‘live public debate’ formats favor science deniers because they are not bound by science or even the truth,” observes the veteran pseudoscience debunker David Gorski. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z For decades, organizations like the Innocence Project have worked to weed pseudoscience out of courts — microscopic hair analysis, blood spatter analysis and bite mark evidence have all been used to wrongly convict defendants. Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried. 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The group is connected to other researchers, students and those who align themselves with this pseudoscience in art and technology. Will Creationism Continue to Flourish in Brazil? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Other researchers fear it signals a growing embrace of pseudoscience by Indian officials. Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Between holistic healers peddling untested remedies and pseudoscience around the effects of gluten, it can be hard to sift through the noise. Celiac disease is on the rise. Why? 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The contest is often between the nuances of scientific inquiry and the cocksure bluntness of pseudoscience. Column: Sorry, Joe Rogan: Scientists should never 'debate' anti-vaccine quacks. Here's why 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z As experts have pointed out, Kacsmaryk's brief was littered with both pseudoscience and untruths regarding abortion. The abortion pill is safe for now — but that could change again this week 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z This demonstrates the government's preference for pseudoscience and contempt for good quality science in Brazil. Will Creationism Continue to Flourish in Brazil? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z It is a strange irony that the internet — the byproduct of millennia of scientific and technological progress — has evolved into a wellspring for the dissemination of pseudoscience and unfounded conspiracy theories. TikTok is helping popularize bizarre Titanic conspiracy theories 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Numerous qualified professionals pointed out, however, that the study was so sloppy and incoherent that it amounted to pseudoscience. Column: Anti-vaxxers loved to cite this study of COVID vaccine deaths. Now it's being retracted 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In the new analysis, one of the largest effects came from a study that involved a three-month university class aimed at distinguishing science from pseudoscience. Conspiracy Theories Can Be Undermined with These Strategies, New Analysis Shows 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Clickbait headlines and pseudoscience claims prey on our cognitive biases, hobbling critical thinking. Wearable Brain Devices Will Challenge Our Mental Privacy 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z I and others hope that Lula will heed the dangers of pseudoscience and once again value good science—something he seems to have begun to demonstrate by readjusting research grants early in his term. Will Creationism Continue to Flourish in Brazil? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The justice reporting award went to Brett Murphy of ProPublica for his investigation into the pseudoscience of “911 call analysis,” which claims to assess a caller’s guilt based on speech patterns. New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z This is all unfortunate, because it clouds the story’s inherent dramas: patricide, assault, forced eviction, flooding, racism, pseudoscience. Paul Harding's modest debut won a surprise Pulitzer. His third novel aims too high 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Lewinski has been accused of using “pseudoscience” to justify questionable police shootings across the country through his for-hire Force Science Institute. California attorney general clears LAPD officer in shooting using controversial 'expert' 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z The defendants weaponized the trial, using the n-word, expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler, calling for an all-White ethno-state and praising racist pseudoscience, espousing the kind of rhetoric seldom used in courtrooms. Judge slashes millions owed by hate groups for 2017 Charlottesville rally 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Just one example of what a dumpster fire TikTok is in terms of spreading both dangerous weight-loss information and general pseudoscience. How social media ads can ruin your holiday cheer 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z "Quantum" is a term thrown around so often, especially in the realm of pseudoscience, that it can be devoid of meaning if it's not properly contextualized, but it doesn't have to be confusing. Is the brain a quantum computer? A remarkable pair of studies suggests so 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “These homeopathic or naturopathic treatments are based on pseudoscience,” Moore says. Parasite cleanses are ‘modern snake oil.’ Experts explain why. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The use of AI is becoming widespread - but its analysis of candidate videos or applications is "pseudoscience". AI tools fail to reduce recruitment bias - study 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z As numerous qualified professionals have pointed out, however, the study is so sloppy and incoherent that it amounts to a monument of pseudoscience. Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes bogus anti-vaccine 'study' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z It’s the continuation of a trend that sees sports companies using pseudoscience and widely held myths to sell another drink or exercise ball to aspiring athletes. Opinion | Tom Brady’s program is just a marketing tool being used on students 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The arrangement with schools in Pinellas County, Florida, marks a foray into education for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers superstar and his methods - including some that have been criticized as pseudoscience. Tom Brady’s TB12 Method is in schools. Experts have doubts. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The arrangement with schools in Pinellas County, Florida, marks a foray into education for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers superstar and his methods — including some that have been criticized as pseudoscience. Tom Brady’s TB12 Method is in schools. Experts have doubts. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Astrology, that unlikely and vague pseudoscience, makes much of the position of the planets at the moment of one's birth. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z By muddying the water with false claims and pseudoscience, they have done just the opposite. Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes bogus anti-vaccine 'study' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The scheme of astrology has no basis in scientific fact, however; at best, it can be described as a pseudoscience. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z While phrenology is now considered pseudoscience, Gall's assertion that different parts of the brain were responsible for different functions is viewed as an important scientific advance. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Such a feat is made much harder by the lingering stigma that UFO research is pseudoscience. NASA’s UFO Study Isn’t Really Looking for Space Aliens 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z St. Helens, are sometimes used by purveyors of pseudoscience as evidence for the Earth being very young. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z With debunker burnout on the horizon and a never-ending flow of pseudoscience, researchers said they needed more data to determine which strategies worked best for countering misinformation. TikTok Is Flooded With Health Myths. These Creators Are Pushing Back. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Social scientists have discredited eugenics, which was popular in the early 20th century, as a pseudoscience obsessed with the genetic fitness of White Americans. In abortion debate, echoes of another battle: Reproductive rights for Black women 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Social Darwinism added a layer of pseudoscience to the idea of the self-made man, a desirable thought for all who sought to follow Carnegie’s example. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And some researchers argue that further tests on reiki would be a waste of time because it is pseudoscience. Will exercise, meditation or reiki help if you can’t find a therapist? 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z Geologists, scientists, or anyone exploring scientific inquiry must discern valid sources of information from pseudoscience and misinformation. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Wong also sees pseudoscience creators who back up false, fear-mongering claims about sunscreen with white papers the creators either don’t have full access to or don’t understand. TikTok Is Flooded With Health Myths. These Creators Are Pushing Back. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, many of these efforts focused on the bodies of women, employing theories closely tied to the pseudoscience of white racial superiority. Review: Why a novel about a home for 'feeble-minded women' resonates with our antiabortion moment 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z She'd bought it somehow, somewhere, in an effort to feel better — fully knowing that the idea that a crystal would ward off evil was pseudoscience. Big Wellness is coming for your wallet: "They'll get you with a crystal or a cleanse" 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Indigenous land-management practices were cast aside as pseudoscience; intentional burning was regarded as the behavior of woods arsonists and miscreants. Why Climate Change Makes It Harder to Fight Fire With Fire 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z An explanation that cannot be tested or does not meet scientific standards is not considered science, but pseudoscience. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Science-Based Medicine, a website that reports on pseudoscience and other health frauds, called it “pure, unadulterated anti-vaccine propaganda masquerading as a ‘balanced’ documentary.’” Who ended the travel mask mandate? A vaccine critic, a Florida judge and 2 anxious travelers 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z AllatRa is known for promoting pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories involving aliens and secretive powerful elites that sacrifice children. How high-profile scientists felt tricked by group denying climate change 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z What followed was 16 submissions, grounded in racialist pseudoscience, speculating about what made people Black. Review | From 1741, bizarre ideas about what made people Black 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z While no longer quite as shocking as it once was and despite some doubtful pseudoscience, “The Lake of the Dead” is still very neatly done and reads exceptionally well in Jenkins’s translation. Review | Let’s call April mystery book month. Here’s what I’d read. 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z This section focuses on how to identify evidence-based information and differentiate it from pseudoscience. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, law enforcement and intelligence agencies who rely on the training are wasting precious resources on pseudoscience. No, you can't really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z “Guidelines that are scientifically based are especially important since psychology and human behavior can too often lean on pop psychology and pseudoscience among the general population.” APA cites diversity, science in revised HS psychology curriculum 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Dr. Montagnier’s reputation later plummeted as colleagues accused him of spreading pseudoscience and threatening public health through his opposition to vaccination mandates. Luc Montagnier, Nobel-winning virologist who co-discovered HIV, dies at 89 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z This, she added, was the only way of “differentiating ourselves from the pseudoscience that is so much a part of popular culture with UFOs.” Why is a Harvard astrophysicist working with UFO buffs? 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Van Bavel added: “He used a pseudoscience term and millions of people downloaded the episode — and it took on a life of its own, even though there is no evidence supporting it.” A vaccine scientist’s discredited claims have bolstered a movement of misinformation 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z As an expert in the psychology of deception and its detection, pseudoscience in this domain troubles me deeply. No, you can't really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z A frustrated Hackell said the government’s vaccination campaign is clearly struggling against misinformation and “pseudoscience,” the likes of which he has never seen before in his 40-plus years as a pediatrician. Kids’ low COVID-19 vaccination rates called a ‘gut punch’ 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z He later backed ideas that were widely derided as pseudoscience, appearing at an autism conference alongside actress Jenny McCarthy to declare that the developmental disorder could be cured with antibiotics. Luc Montagnier, Nobel-winning virologist who co-discovered HIV, dies at 89 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Vaid agrees that endorsements or other verification systems are necessary to weed out pseudoscience. ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Hence, someone observing from afar the rise in conspiratorial beliefs and pseudoscience might characterize a vast swath of the American public as delusional. Is America experiencing mass psychosis? 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Even more disturbing than the financial costs are the human costs of pseudoscience. No, you can't really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z This model was used not just for Big Tobacco's approach to political science, but its method for advancing pseudoscience as well. How Big Tobacco used bad science to avoid accountability — and set the blueprint for Big Oil 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Defendants dropped the n-word, expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler and trafficked in racist pseudoscience. Spencer, Kessler, Cantwell and other white supremacists found liable in deadly Unite the Right rally 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z In addition, the science surrounding vermin intersected with racist pseudoscience. How vermin helped shape the modern world 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Its climate-change pages have a group of dedicated volunteer editors who actively patrol for any sign of bad information or pseudoscience. Climate change: Conspiracy theories found on foreign-language Wikipedia 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The posts go far beyond political criticism and debate - they're full of incorrect information, fake stories and pseudoscience. How Covid conspiracists are shifting to climate change denial 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Defendants have dropped the n-word, admired Adolf Hitler, joked about the Holocaust and trafficked in racist pseudoscience. White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Defendants have dropped a racial slur, admired Adolf Hitler, joked about the Holocaust and trafficked in racist pseudoscience. White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Today, ghosts are considered the realm of pseudoscience because there is no physical "theory" of how or why they might exist. A brief examination of the science behind ghost hunting 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z After ExxonMobil was sued by the Massachusetts attorney general for lying to customers about climate change, the company had countersued arguing that peddling climate pseudoscience is a First Amendment right. Democrats seize on historic hearing with Big Oil executives 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z How many were scared into non-compliance by the misleading pseudoscience spouted by activists with deep suspicions of Big Pharma? Vaccine mandates are working 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The Holocaust showed us that misinformation campaigns can lead to a frightening proliferation of pseudoscience. Misuse of Holocaust imagery further divides us in pandemic 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Eugenics was a pseudoscience promulgated in the 19th and 20th centuries aiming to improve human genetics. Britney Spears, Carrie Buck and the awful history of controlling ‘unfit’ women 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The implications of using pseudoscience to detect ghosts are much bigger than simply figuring out what happens in the afterlife. A brief examination of the science behind ghost hunting 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. Column: New evidence emerges against COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The new Texas bill outlaws abortions as determined by "fetal heartbeat" pseudoscience, meaning at about six weeks, when many women don't even know for sure they are pregnant. What year is it in America, anyway? How complacency and naiveté brought us to this crisis 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z A study published last month established that Americans, after years of being pounded with creationist propaganda, had decisively rejected pseudoscience and accepted evolution. Everything we know about the mu variant, the latest coronavirus mutation 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z How medications are prescribed varies state by state, but some pharmacists — like the one I encountered — have become the last line of defense against dangerous pseudoscience. How easy is it to get an ivermectin prescription? It took us 3 hours. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z While he briefly mentions Nazi doctors and their horrifying experiments on concentration-camp prisoners, he skips entirely over early 20th-century U.S. eugenics, a branch of pseudoscience concerned with preserving "fit" human bloodlines and discarding the "unfit." Tales of scientists gone rogue (or worse) 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Some skeptics dismiss the supposed benefits as pseudoscience. To Sprinters, Hot Weather in Tokyo Feels Just Right 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Still, Poe wasn't immune to quackery himself, finding trendy pseudosciences like phrenology and animal magnetism perfectly sensible. Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z His downfall, from a strategic standpoint, was in failing to listen to scientists about the COVID-19 pandemic and embracing pseudoscience instead. Was this Barack Obama's finest hour? His 2011 roast of Donald Trump warned us what was coming 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Sobol and Duncan teamed against Perez, a vicious despot with deep beliefs in racial pseudoscience, to demand Duncan’s rights be upheld and not take a plea deal. Review: Simmering doc 'A Crime on the Bayou' illustrates the cyclical ills of systemic racism 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Johnson's comments are just his latest in a clear pattern of pseudoscience. Republican Ron Johnson tries to explain why there is "no reason to be pushing vaccines on people" 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Distrust of science, institutions and traditional news sources is heavily associated with stronger beliefs in conspiracy theories, as is support for pseudoscience. Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Distrust of science, institutions and traditional news sources is heavily associated with stronger beliefs in conspiracy theories, as is support for pseudoscience. Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z In a phone interview, she said he was always into pseudoscience, but his obsession with QAnon is beyond anything she's ever observed. Meet the spouses whose marriages were destroyed by QAnon 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z She noted that he was passionate about debunking pseudoscience, making sure people were not hurt by bad scientific claims and protecting dolphins from mistreatment. Dolphin-assisted therapy, a long-touted idea, faces renewed scientific scrutiny 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z He also promoted pseudoscience to his supporters, kept trying to prematurely reopen the economy and set a bad example by personally refusing to wear a mask, inevitably catching the disease himself. A historian from the future looks back: What will be most remembered of Trump's presidency? 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z One such tweet highlighted a Nobel laureate in physics who falsely claimed “global warming is pseudoscience.” Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z But, he added, “To climate science itself these pose very little danger because they are pseudoscience, because they are ridiculous, and because nobody serious in the scientific community will pay any attention to them.” A Late Burst of Climate Denial Extends the Era of Trump Disinformation 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z He also believed in race-based pseudoscience and the genetic superiority of whites. Donald Trump's mini-monster: Stephen Miller wasn't born that way 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Virologists quickly dismissed the paper as “pseudoscience” and “based on conjecture.” How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Last month, faculty at Stanford University discussed imposing sanctions on Atlas for spreading pseudoscience. Trump COVID-19 adviser Scott Atlas calls for citizens to “rise up” in response to Michigan lockdown 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota described it as “the most amazing combination of pixie dust and pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.” Opinion | Of course we’re tired of the coronavirus, Mr. President. Wishful thinking won’t make it go away. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The technique could unjustly sway judges and jurors in trials, said Denault, who describes some of these judgments as pseudoscience. What can body language analysis really tell us? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Sir Van has previously caused controversy by denouncing what he called the "pseudoscience" around coronavirus. Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The lifestyle blogger featured controversial pseudoscience wellness treatments such as “vampire facials,” psychedelic mushrooms and hypnosis to deal with a variety of concerns faced by women. Gwyneth Paltrow’s controversial Netflix series ‘The Goop Lab’ renewed for second season 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Cable channels dedicated to science, history, or “reality” are rife with pseudoscience, deception, and conspiracy. Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z On the other, a swirling mass of pseudoscience claiming that coronavirus does not exist, or is not fatal, or any number of other baseless claims. How coronavirus myths are merging with QAnon 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z It’s a non-scientific shorthand for me to talk about the odds, not an attempt at pseudoscience. Taking Biden from one basement to another 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z But the same editors who recognized that eugenics was a dangerous pseudoscience should not have given eugenicists a platform at all. Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Recently comedian Samantha Bee dedicated a segment of her show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” to slam pseudoscience methods promoted to women, calling them “a waste of money and at worst is dangerous.” Gwyneth Paltrow’s controversial Netflix series ‘The Goop Lab’ renewed for second season 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Many Americans opposed a government requirement to use seatbelts and cited all manner of pseudoscience to discredit them, imagining them as an impingement of personal freedom. I witnessed the horror of HIV 30 years ago. Here's how we can conquer a pandemic | Cleve Jones 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z He also includes his experience of meeting several descendants of Black city residents harmed by post-Civil War terrorism and analyzes the 19th-century anthropological pseudoscience that provided a basis for white-supremacist ideology. Review | A White author grapples with a family history of racial oppression 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Others remain resistant, for cultural or ideological reasons, to public health guidance and buy into conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. Coronavirus threat rises across U.S.: ‘We just have to assume the monster is everywhere’ 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Neither of these organizations nor many of the participants are unknown to followers of conspiracy theories or debunkers of pseudoscience. Column: Why can't Twitter and Facebook hold back the torrent of right-wing conspiracy claims 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z They attributed his actions to “excited delirium,” a term used by police to justify deadly force but described as “pseudoscience” by critics. The police have long been a reliable source for some. But it’s time to reexamine that trust 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z So she effortlessly recognised the telltale indicators of pseudoscience marketing – unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments, promising simplistic solutions and support. Don't post on Facebook unless you are prepared to face the consequences 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z That’s “pseudoscience,” Williams charges, as it guarantees the model will look accurate, even if it isn’t. Lawsuit alleges scientific misconduct at U.S. nuclear weapons lab 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “When put into practice, the pseudoscience of physiognomy becomes the pseudoscience of scientific racism,” wrote the researchers. AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Many eminent philosophers of science, including Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, opined that correct predictions are a way of telling science from pseudoscience. The Truth about Scientific Models 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z These beliefs succeed partly because they fit into an established corpus of conspiracy and pseudoscience, says Rahman. Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they’re harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z And pseudoscience perpetrators are wary of experts — marginalizing and ignoring them over vaccination, for instance. Resist pseudoscience with respect, not ridicule 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z That triggered a pushback from President Trump, the nation’s leading avatar of crisis pseudoscience, who called Fauci’s position “not an acceptable answer.” Column: We shut down the economy to make progress against COVID-19 — and then made no progress 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z The direct-to-consumer pitches by clinics reviewed in Turner’s paper typically “fuse pseudoscience, which is what they’re offering, with more credible forms of science.” Column: Don't be taken in by stem cell firms offering unsubstantiated therapies for COVID-19 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Trump’s vocal disdain for evidence-based thinking has emboldened an army of quacks, pseudoscience groups and conspiracy theorists who have stepped up their proselytizing online and in protests across the country. Pandemic brings Trump's war on science to the boil – but who will win? 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the dearth of hard information about the epidemiology of the disease has created a vacuum that has been filled by pseudoscience wearing the mantle of expertise. Column: The COVID-19 crisis shows how dangerous misinformation becomes contagious 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z The fight against pseudoscience is weakened if trusted medical institutions condemn an evidence-free practice in one context and legitimize it in another. Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z According to the company’s ad portal, the pseudoscience interest category contained more than 78 million people. Amazon’s white-collar workers are starting to stand up for their blue-collar colleagues 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z More than 78 million Facebook users were interested in “pseudoscience,” it said, citing the company’s ad portal. Facebook gets rid of 'pseudoscience' ad-targeting category 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z While no longer available as of Wednesday, the social media platform’s ad portal showed more than 78 million Facebook users were interested in pseudoscience, The Markup reports. Facebook just killed its "pseudoscience" category for ad targeting 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Personality tests, skeptics have long argued, are nothing more than pseudoscience that create a buyer-beware world of little regulation where anyone can call themselves an expert. The Enneagram is having a moment. You can thank millennials 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Of course, part of the scientific community’s fight against pseudoscience is keeping its own house in order. Pseudoscience and COVID-19 — we’ve had enough already 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The US government is taking legal action against pseudoscience groups peddling a potentially dangerous quack cure for coronavirus: bleach solution. First Thing: a second coronavirus wave could be worse than the first 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Herbalism, meaning the study of medicinal plants and their use as medical treatment, is frequently dismissed as pseudoscience, marginalized in comparison to "real" modern medicine. No longer foes, science and herbalism find common cause 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The Physics Society of Iran described the announcement as "pseudoscience", "unbelievable" and on a par with "sci-fi tales". BCG and other coronavirus rumours fact-checked 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z After hearing a lot of dangerous rumors and pseudoscience circulating around the coronavirus pandemic, she decided to make a podcast that set the record straight. As some US medical students heed call to action, others are sidelined amid pandemic 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Massie asked, adding: “I think it’s somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today.’ GOP’s Massie outrages House, Trump by seeking to stall vote 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Yet a contrary opinion is that the concept is practically pseudoscience, because it seems to be nearly impossible to test through experiments. Will String Theory Finally Be Put to the Experimental Test? 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Medical experts — led by the ubiquitous and irreplaceable Anthony S. Fauci, whom I’d like to encase in bubble wrap to protect his health — politely correct Trump’s pseudoscience with real science. Opinion | Trump, as usual, is just making things worse 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Needless to say, preventing the practice of pseudoscience is one of the key reasons the state regulates physicians. Bioethics Faces a Virginity Test 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Skeptics are surely appalled by the accepting attitude of patients and psychotherapists toward pseudoscience. Astrology, Tarot Cards and Psychotherapy 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Much of that work, done by staff and outside scientists, involves screening the submissions to weed out pseudoscience and opinion pieces. ‘A completely new culture of doing research.’ Coronavirus outbreak changes how scientists communicate 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Parsing Goop’s sundry claims to pseudoscience and utter quackery feels like low hanging fruit. Psychedelics have lost their cool. Blame Gwyneth Paltrow | John Semley 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z “This is another social media hoax that exemplifies how quickly pseudoscience and false claims can go viral,” she said. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z These strains of Enlightenment thinking made him a staunch critic of pseudoscience, intolerance and superstition. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z She’s been accused of peddling pseudoscience and being out of touch with the needs of regular women, of building a multimedia empire on overpriced, even dangerous, woo woo. Gwyneth Paltrow got real women's vulvas onto Netflix. Here's how she did it 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Murray is a social scientist who critics say uses pseudoscience to link intelligence and race in the 1994 book “The Bell Curve.” which he co-authored. Speaker invited back to Middlebury 3 years after protest 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In these emails, Miller defends white supremacist neo-Confederates and traffics in eugenics and other forms of white supremacist pseudoscience that purports to prove the inferiority of black people and other nonwhites. I spent MLK Day reading Stephen Miller's racist emails. Here's why 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Many also abhor the rise of pseudoscience rooted in Hindu nationalism and the budgetary neglect of science and higher education. Attack by nationalist hoodlums and police brutality shake India’s academic community 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z This pseudospirituality is as misguided and dangerous as the pseudoscience used to sell it. Perspective | Goop teaches us we can be pure — if we spend enough money 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For years, experts have said that Goop, the wellness and lifestyle brand founded by the actor and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow, markets pseudoscience and overblown cures. In outrage over its bunk science, Goop finds fuel for growth 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Gøtzsche then goes on to compare the leaders in the field to “primate silverbacks in the jungle” and claims that “psychiatric research is predominantly pseudoscience.” "Evidence-based medicine" and the expulsion of Peter Gøtzsche 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In his later bestsellers, Burioni widened his case against pseudoscience in Italy. This Italian scientist has become a celebrity by fighting vaccine skeptics 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Especially when combined with facial-recognition technology, this sort of pseudoscience could lead to systematic discrimination. Can the Shape of Your Face Predict Your Propensity for Violence? 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “It’s pseudoscience. It’s a license to discriminate,” she added. Face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Another was a head-measuring device - a relic of pseudoscience used to supposedly measure racial purity. Seized Nazi relics to be displayed in Argentina 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The Wikipedia page for “precognition” is unforgiving; off the bat, the world’s most popular information resource claims premonitions are “widely considered to be pseudoscience”. Psychic future: what next for the ‘precog economy’? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z According to available research, immigration control as climate control is a similar pseudoscience. 'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Critics called it pseudoscience, saying it was akin to using public dollars to study mermaids. In Kashmir Move, Critics Say, Modi Is Trying to Make India a Hindu Nation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But the idea that any kind of crisis of masculinity has been caused by lower testosterone in the population is a fiction, wished into existence by those peddling right-wing pseudoscience. Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z A notable aspect of the party’s nationalist narratives is the meshing of science, pseudoscience and myth with political messages. Science and the rise of nationalism in India 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Some is simply pseudoscience — ideas or statements that claim to be scientific, and may even sound scientific, but are not based on credible scientific evidence or reality. It’s easy to be duped by celebrities peddling false health claims. Here’s how to get the facts. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z For me, a scientifically chastened ex-Freudian, psychoanalytic theory amounted to a pseudoscience. Why Freud Should Be Dead 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z The information age has turned out to be a breeding ground for misinformation, with “Moneyball” giving way to Twitter bots, viral pseudoscience, and dubious Facebook news feeds. Parenting by the Numbers 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z It is probably no accident that the category of “genius,” an obsession of the nineteenth century, coincided with the emergence of the pseudoscience of race, which held that certain peoples were genetically fitter than others. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Murray is a social scientist who critics say uses pseudoscience to link intelligence and race. Citing safety, college cancels Polish conservative’s speech 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Critics called it pseudoscience and said the search was akin to using public dollars to study mermaids. Under Modi, a Hindu Nationalist Surge Has Further Divided India 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z If I were a science journalist myself, I would still want to draw lessons from Freud, not about the unconscious but about the classic ingredients of a pseudoscience. Why Freud Should Be Dead 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z “So, it’s not really science. I think it’s somewhat appropriate that somebody with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee,” Massie said before Kerry fired back. John Kerry clashes with Rep. Thomas Massie on his college degree, climate change: ‘Are you serious?’ 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Can you explain, first, the different types of pseudoscience? Salon talks with a Department of Justice expert about autism 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Anything that wasn’t tainted by the dread hand of Charles Hughes and his ludicrous pseudoscience. Klopp and Pochettino have reminded English football what it does best | Jonathan Wilson 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Many deride her lifestyle brand, Goop, as little more than an overhyped e-commerce platform peddling pseudoscience and baubles. Gwyneth Paltrow Is All Business 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Freud, we need to realize, created the most ingenious and thoroughgoing pseudoscience ever devised. Why Freud Should Be Dead 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s not a surprise, then, that psychics have built a multimillion-dollar industry that is “larger and grimmer” than one might assume, propped up by daytime TV shows and pseudoscience. John Oliver on psychics: 'A vast underworld of unscrupulous vultures' 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But others say there is little doubt that pseudoscience is on the rise—even at the highest levels of government. Hindu nationalists claim that ancient Indians had airplanes, stem cell technology, and the internet 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Its deal with Goop both validates and amplifies pseudoscience. Goop's deal with Netflix is a dangerous win for pseudoscience | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z But some of the things on your site stray into the realm of pseudoscience that may be not only unproven, but potentially dangerous. Gwyneth Paltrow Is All Business 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Call it pseudoscience or the accumulation of millennia of Chinese wisdom — feng shui is serious business in Asia, where masters are leaned upon when picking everything from baby names to billion-dollar construction sites. What does Year of the Pig have in store for Trump? Feng shui masters offer clues. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Here the plan can be said to have moved from speculative science to pseudoscience. Brexit Enters the Realm of Science Fiction 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Critics say pseudoscience is creeping into science funding and education. Hindu nationalists claim that ancient Indians had airplanes, stem cell technology, and the internet 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Critics said the omission would open the door to creationism and other forms of pseudoscience or “alternative facts.” Brazil‘s new president has scientists worried. Here‘s why 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z That leaves just a handful of academics who get bombarded with vitriol, including outright threats, every time they try to counter pseudoscience with fact. Opinion | How to Inoculate Against Anti-Vaxxers 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z This is pseudoscience at its worst and is thus the polar opposite of skepticism. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Voyager 2, the Harvard-Yale game, and funny, sad and bad cartoons 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “What emerged really clearly from our analysis is just a strong desire among women that we surveyed to say, we really want something grounded in science, we don’t want something that’s pseudoscience,” Starling says. It’s getting easier to get FDA approval — just ask Natural Cycles 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In other instances, too, scientists are pushing back against the growing tide of pseudoscience. Hindu nationalists claim that ancient Indians had airplanes, stem cell technology, and the internet 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z And for affect recognition, where companies claim technology can scan someone’s face and read their character and even intent, AI Now’s authors say companies are often peddling pseudoscience. When algorithms go wrong we need more power to fight back, say AI researchers 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z It is a myth, pseudoscience, a fraud, a social con job. Perspective | The idea of race may be fiction, but the impact of racism is very real 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But the sheer range and volume of pseudoscience on the web is alarming. Alarmed by fake news? Fake science is just as serious of a problem 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Sceptics say this is pseudoscience, because crunching crime data to make informed decisions on police deployment is nothing new. Can we predict when and where a crime will take place? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But the tide of pseudoscience may not retreat quickly, he says. Hindu nationalists claim that ancient Indians had airplanes, stem cell technology, and the internet 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the use of pseudoscience to further an agenda of hate is common throughout American scientific history. Trump’s gender policy is both cruel and scientifically bankrupt 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z VIBHA’s growing clout is worrying some scientists who warn that India is increasingly embracing pseudoscience. Outsider takes helm at Indian research giant 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z After a series of web searches, I compiled a list of the top 100 topics associated with superstition or pseudoscience or conspiracy theories. Alarmed by fake news? Fake science is just as serious of a problem 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z A dangerous cocktail of pseudoscience and real science set the stage for the eugenics movement’s popularity. The sordid story of the once-popular eugenics movement 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “Until we test them scientifically we can’t tell the difference between that and pseudoscience like astrology.” How Accurate Are Personality Tests? 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Later he launched a 24-hour online radio network, and five days a week he hosted a show in which he peddled racial pseudoscience and advocated for a whites-only country. Review | A white supremacist’s path toward enlightenment on race and tolerance 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z He highlighted one example in which a scientist who was aligned with industry dismissed evidence that the pesticide chlorpyrifos causes disease, calling it “pseudoscience.” Perspective | Scientists know plastics are dangerous. Why won’t the government say so? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Theodore Roosevelt, who held a complacent 19th-century faith, buttressed by racist pseudoscience, that nonwhite peoples were hopelessly inferior, reported to Pearson the “great effect” of his book among “all our men here in Washington.” Opinion | The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, his defense of his own views constitutes the worst sort of pseudoscience, and I challenge him actually to get from his concept of “framing” to the “framing circuits” in the brain. ‘Truth Sandwich’? Baloney! 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z And then, of course, the more Goop was criticized: by mainstream doctors with accusations of pseudoscience, by websites like Slate and Jezebel saying it was no longer ludicrous — no, now it was dangerous. How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In this climate, the rush to fight pseudoscience with real scientific results is understandable. Seeking a scientific explanation for trans identity could do more harm than good 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, pseudoscience was used to justify the torture and murder of millions. Holocaust Museum shows how Nazi theories affected 12 survivors 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Such busy recyclers of Western supremacism, many of whom uphold a disgraced racial pseudoscience, remind us that history often repeats itself as intellectual farce. Opinion | The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z According to this racial pseudoscience, Brazilian attempts to modernize were doomed: the nation, with its irreversibly mixed population, was condemned to permanent inferiority. He’s One of Brazil’s Greatest Writers. Why Isn’t Machado de Assis More Widely Read? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Some of the stalwarts in the autism field view Wall’s work as “poor,” “pseudoscience,” and “dangerous.” Meet the "Bad Boy" of Autism Research 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z And while he likes to post photos of himself standing next to scientists, he tweets things such as “Good scientists understand that mainstream #science is a form of #pseudoscience”. Out of their minds: wild ideas at the ‘Coachella of consciousness’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It also alludes to eugenics, the British–American pseudoscience embraced by Adolf Hitler. Aldous Huxley’s nuclear dystopia at 70: Ape and Essence 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Dr. David Gorski, a professor of surgery and oncology at Wayne State University who blogs about pseudoscience, said Gray’s approach made no sense. A doctor sells 13-second recordings he says can heal patients. The California medical board isn't buying it 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z "Acupuncture is based on pseudoscience and a technique unsuitable for medical purposes … teaching it on a university level is seriously damaging the reputation of science and fact-based medical treatments," he wrote. Hungarian scientists are on edge as country is poised to force out top university 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z In another, the panel laid out guidelines defining “pseudoscience.” When Wikipedia’s Bickering Editors Go to War, Its Supreme Court Steps In 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Some critics say that even less contentious parts of naturopathy tend to be steeped in pseudoscience. ‘Natural’ doctors face skepticism from practitioners of conventional medicine 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z There is a real concern in the science communication community about how best to handle the tide of pseudoscience. At 12, He Had a Viral Science Video. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z “The alien hype was silly pseudoscience promoted for media attention,” he says. This strange ‘alien’ skeleton is actually a human fetus with genetic bone defects 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Many of the keenest promoters of race science today are stars of the “alt-right”, who like to use pseudoscience to lend intellectual justification to ethno-nationalist politics. The unwelcome revival of ‘race science’ 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Though often dismissed today as pseudoscience, at the time Douglass was writing, it was considered legitimate. Opinion | Frederick Douglass’s Fight Against Scientific Racism 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z People seem especially susceptible to pseudoscience when science fails to provide an easy answer, he says. The scientists calling Tom Brady's bluff 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Sometimes “science”, “pseudoscience”, “expert”, and “objective” are improperly applied labels carrying too much freight. Good Fats, Bad Fats 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z I can't say about the study, but this article is gross pseudoscience! The Mysterious Interior World of Exercise 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z She tackled the skull-measuring pseudoscience of phrenology in her 2000 novel “Skullduggery,” chronicled Oregon Trail pioneers in the “Petticoat Party” series, which began with “Go West, Young Women!” Kathleen Karr, children’s writer who entwined history and humor, dies at 71 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The Los Angeles-based Independent Investigations Group, which looks into claims of the paranormal and pseudoscience, plans a test in the coming weeks at the Salton Sea hoping to convince a group of flat Earthers. The Earth is round, and other myths, debunked by the flat Earth movement (you read that right) – LA Times 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z A person should ask themselves if they might subscribe to some pseudoscience about ethnic ranking. Opinion | The Heartbeat of Racism Is Denial 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Regardless, as Apple continues to operate and expand in the health and wellness sector, it would do well to avoid featuring pseudoscience, even in passing. Apple’s 2017 Webby-nominated ad featured autism pseudoscience 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z This year’s most egregious pseudoscience came from a sticker Goop marketed, saying the stickers made out of “NASA space suit material” could “rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies.” Our favorite science stories this year (that we didn’t write) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Some say that is pseudoscience, but it is really more like just new info has come up that shows it is not that accurate. Opinion | What Doctors Should Ignore 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z It underlaid the pseudosciences of phrenology and craniometry, deployed to rationalize racism. Perfectly normal This is not some voodoo or pseudoscience, several research works conclusively prove that our gut bacteria influence our brain and other vital organs. Unlocking the Secrets of the Microbiome 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Rather than helping untangle legal responsibility, neuroscience here causes an even deeper divide between the rich and the poor, based on pseudoscience. Should Brain Science Be Making Prisons Better, Not Trying to Prove Innocence? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Stanger was injured in March after protesters shouted down guest speaker Charles Murray, a social scientist who critics say used pseudoscience to link intelligence to race in the 1994 book “The Bell Curve.” Middlebury College prof hurt in melee blames some faculty 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It has repeatedly slid toward pseudoscience and has become a major divider of humanity. Opinion | What Doctors Should Ignore 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z After the case was thrown out and the police had acknowledged their mistake, Laurence assisted the subsequent inquiry by exposing the pseudoscience on which the profile was based. The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z "The danger for bioRxiv is being hijacked by pseudoscience chasing a veneer of respectability," geneticist Barry Thompson of The Francis Crick Institute in London tweeted recently. Are preprints the future of biology? A survival guide for scientists 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z But is it possible that pseudoscience is sneaking back into the world, disguised in new garb thanks to AI? The invention of AI ‘gaydar’ could be the start of something much worse 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z If evidence is the line that separates robust science from squishy pseudoscience, and if that evidence is missing in many cases of surgery, what is the difference between a homeopath and a surgeon? When surgery is just a stitch-up 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Organizers are also calling on Indian officials to steer clear of pseudoscience and instead promote a scientific temper: a spirit of inquiry enshrined in India’s constitution. Indian scientists taking to streets en masse 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Never mind the skeptics who say astrology is a pseudoscience. When young Chinese ask your sign, they don’t mean dragon or rat 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Never mind all the skeptics who say astrology is a pseudoscience. When Young Chinese Ask, ‘What’s Your Sign?’ They Don’t Mean Dragon or Rat 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z This pseudoscience, physiognomy, was fuel for the scientific racism of the 19th and 20th centuries, and gave moral cover to some of humanity’s worst impulses: to demonize, condemn, and exterminate fellow humans. The invention of AI ‘gaydar’ could be the start of something much worse 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The film’s Korean director, who uses the single name Chang, takes it all very seriously, although he emphasizes action and suspense over pseudoscience. Review | Time-travel thriller ‘Reset’ takes itself a little too seriously. 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Prosecutors called the expert the “godmother” of a “junk pseudoscience.” Ex-prof convicted of assaulting disabled man gets new trial 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z No, they mock you because you promote crackpot fasts, barmy pseudoscience and overpriced tat on your website. Oh, Pippa Middleton – you should have gone full Eurotrash. Not be a Sloane married to a stuffed cashmere jumper 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The core problem is that so much of what we call economics is pseudoscience. The Question Isn’t Why Wage Growth Is So Low. It’s Why It’s So High. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “I was educated and made to believe that it’s absolutely impossible that the face contains any information about your intimate traits, because physiognomy and phrenology were just pseudosciences,” he says. The invention of AI ‘gaydar’ could be the start of something much worse 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z An economics afflicted by such attitudes is not even a dismal science; it's a pseudoscience. Complexity: Decoding deep similarities : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z At Vermont’s Middlebury College last month, protesters shouted down guest speaker Charles Murray, a social scientist who critics say used pseudoscience to link intelligence to race in the 1994 book “The Bell Curve.” US colleges confront a new era of sometimes-violent protest 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z “The line between pseudoscience and science isn’t always clearly delineated in our society,” he said. What's happening at March for Science events around the world 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z But Essex County prosecutors said the judge’s ruling was correct, calling the expert the “godmother” of a “junk pseudoscience” that isn’t recognized in the scientific field. Ex-professor appeals conviction of disabled man sex assault 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The principles of phrenology, a pseudoscience that developed across Europe and the US in the 19th century, were used as part of the justification of both slavery and the Nazi persecution of Jews. Artificial intelligence is ripe for abuse, tech executive warns: 'a fascist's dream' 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Yet, activists like Robert Kennedy Jr. continue to push pseudoscience about immunizations. The Anti-Vaccine Movement Gains a Friend in the White House 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The widespread dissemination of inaccurate, overstated or incomplete science on social media fuels pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and distrust in science itself. Inaccuracies: Axe science hype from social media : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The pseudoscience is extreme, not least in the work of electrical engineer Bernard Kazhinsky, who posited that humans are radio stations, and thoughts electromagnetic waves. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The new law used the then-popular pseudoscience of eugenics to set drastic limits on entry by groups the government considered “socially inadequate” — mainly Italians and Eastern European Jews. Open doors, slamming gates: The tumultuous politics of U.S. immigration policy 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Even as the scientific community fights against pseudoscience, climate change denial, the anti-vaccine movement and other forms of suspicion and superstition, it has an internal, nagging conundrum: Important experiments often can't be replicated. Researchers struggle to replicate 5 influential cancer experiments from top labs 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Social science—or, more accurately, in some cases, pseudoscience—has a fraught history when it comes to communities of color. Can Behavioral Science Help in Flint? 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The monosaccharide mumbo jumbo you seem to be touting sounds like so much pseudoscience. As Soda Taxes Gain Wider Acceptance, Your Bottle May Be Next 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Cattaneo was already a minor national figure, known for her opposition to all forms of pseudoscience, however powerful the perpetrators. Politics: Life at the divide : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z There is enough pseudoscience in our lives as it is, why ask for more? What’s Missing in Dr. Oz’s TV Exam Room 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Critics may question the scientific basis of astrology, which most academics consider pseudoscience. These astrologists vow to predict who the next U.S. president will be 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z This is the most theoretical of all the guesses, and kind of brilliant because it can't be disproven, but I'm still very confident that it's nonsensical pseudoscience. The five theories on why Europeans dominate the U.S. in pairs matches - Golf Digest 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Tales of other monsters emerged, taken up by the field — considered a pseudoscience — of cryptozoology. Turkey, Rio Olympics, the Tragically Hip: Your Monday Briefing 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Not according to the critics who line up on social media and blogs to complain about the pseudoscience and the commercial interests of those often involved. More accountability for big-data algorithms 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The nature of modern central banking and the pseudoscience of modern monetary economics are themselves surely part of the problem. Hostage to a Bull Market 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z When I consider the sloppy and self-serving ways that companies often use data, I’m reminded of phrenology, a pseudoscience that was briefly popular in the 19th century. How algorithms rule our working lives | Cathy O’Neil 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, the Nazis exploited the pseudoscience of eugenics as a prelude to the Holocaust. The Gene: Science's Most Dangerous Idea Which is to say, the school is requiring its science textbooks to teach science rather than pseudoscience.” Friday's Mini-Report, 5.20.16 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The pseudoscience of graphology may be largely discredited now but for years it was the stuff of drama - court cases calling on expert witnesses: "This is definitely in the hand of the accused." The lost art of reading other people's handwriting - BBC News 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The old one-drop rule for determining race was based on prejudice and pseudoscience. The racism of good intentions 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z He, in turn, might have been answering a call by Horace Walpole, a politician and writer fascinated by the pseudoscience of phrenology: studying skulls for clues to intelligence. Your Thursday Evening Briefing: Brussels, Radovan Karadzic, Argentina 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Under the Nazis, the pseudoscience of eugenics aimed to cleanse the human race of genetic infirmities. The Gene: Science's Most Dangerous Idea This is defined in the opening sequence by the pseudoscience of IQ and given a distinctly classist framing: “Idiocracy’s” curdled politics: The beloved dystopian comedy is really a celebration of eugenics 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z In the United States, from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s, credence was given to this pseudoscience focused on the notional 'improvement' of human populations by halting the reproduction of supposedly lesser genes. History of science: When eugenics became law : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Medical students in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s were taught that Mendelian genetics was “bourgeois pseudoscience”. Drug discovery: A life of tumult and triumph : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s not immediately clear, to the layman, what the essential difference is between science and something masquerading as science: pseudoscience. This Is the Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The pseudoscience of eugenics reached its apotheosis in Nazi Germany. The Gene: Science's Most Dangerous Idea Both films were condemned by academics as "pseudoscience", but they went down a storm with viewers and, in the case of Water, earned Masterskaya and Medvedeva a hatful of awards. Russian director Medvedeva turns Putin into film hero - BBC News 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Although there have been some promising leads over the years, the history of earthquake forecasting is littered with false starts and pseudoscience. Can electric signals in Earth’s atmosphere predict earthquakes? 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z She derided Moses’ “pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning.” Four Centuries of Human Initiative on One City Block 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z This is the essential “line of demarcation,“ as Popper called it, between science and pseudoscience. This Is the Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Parenting magazines and books are filled with the pseudoscience of birth order. Your “middle child syndrome” is BS: Debunking one of the biggest myths about personality types 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But these days, it looks more like pseudoscience. The Politics of Distrust 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z I was invited to speak on the difference between science and pseudoscience. The Difference between Science and Pseudoscience 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z An editor for The American Journal of Psychology called his work “pseudoscience.” Training Officers to Shoot First, and He Will Answer Questions Later 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The problem, as Popper saw it, is that some bodies of knowledge more properly named pseudosciences would be considered scientific if the “Observe & Deduce” operating definition were left alone. This Is the Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether the lineup will satisfy critics of 2014’s Shark Week who condemned, among other things, programs awash in what they labeled “pseudoscience.” ‘Shark Week’ returns for 28th year with first Cuban visit 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether the lineup will satisfy critics of 2014's Shark Week who condemned, among other things, programs awash in what they labeled "pseudoscience." 'Shark Week' looks to strike a balance between science, entertainment; first Cuba visit 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Ostensibly a bill promoting the discussion of diverse theories in science classrooms, critics argue that it was introduced as a way to smuggle creationist pseudoscience such as “intelligent design” into the state’s public schools. Bobby Jindal: Republican who brought creationism into schools to join election 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z This experience, he argued, proves to him the necessity of teaching pseudoscience in the public school science classroom. It’s official: Louisiana public schools are using the Book of Genesis in high school science classes 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Whatever the intention of those involved, embracing pseudoscience as the centerpiece of an advertising and branding effort is an act of corporate irresponsibility. Corporate irresponsibility over GMOs 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z We live in the golden age of fads and pseudoscience. 10 Behaviors of Smart People 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The Internet is literally littered with fads, pseudoscience, BS claims, ludicrous surveys, and content mills that will sell their souls for some clicks and eyeballs. Want to Be Successful? Follow This One Rule 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The column — which takes up the possible health concerns surrounding cellphones and new wearable gadgets like the Apple Watch — was quickly branded as “pseudoscience.” A Tech Column on Wearable Gadgets Draws Fire as ‘Pseudoscience’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Lawmakers in Montana are taking the pseudoscience of “fetal pain” to new lows with a measure that would require the use of fetal anesthesia in abortions performed after 20 weeks. Mandatory anesthesia for fetuses? Proposed abortion restriction takes anti-choice pseudoscience to new low 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But before any attempt at making a case for science literacy, it is important to understand why people like pseudoscience. Pseudo Science And The Age Of Irrationalism 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z But as the technique has spread, it's also struggled to shake accusations of shoddy testing, inflated claims, or even outright pseudoscience. Is 'brain fingerprinting' a breakthrough or a sham? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But this reality is often denied or ignored by a significant proportion of autism advocates, primarily those who subscribe to pseudoscience like that peddled at Age of Autism. Majority of Autism Increase Due to Diagnostic Changes, Finds New Study 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The theme of the episode was pseudoscience, and at the 50 minute mark, the discussion veered towards Bill Nye’s debate with creationist Ken Ham, as well as the Pope’s recent comments accepting the Big Bang. Hear Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye discuss the Pope’s comments on the Big Bang 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Today I finally realized why there are so many Star Wars fanboys: there's a lot of shady pseudoscience behind everything in the Star Wars universe and it's pretty fun to argue about. I designed a better lightsaber than J.J. Abrams while I was in line for coffee this morning 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The story spread primarily across Christian websites – as well as some pseudoscience news sites, one major red flag that the claims may be unfounded. A Resurrected Vaccine Fear Puts Kenyan Infants at Risk 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z He approached Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had observed the tests of Geller’s ability at Stanford and thought them slipshod, and suggested they create an organization dedicated to combating pseudoscience. The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z At least one blogger is taking offense, however: "Shame on @UNESCO for hosting this absurd pseudoscience conference about Montagnier's nonsense," tweeted Andy Lewis, who hosts the blog The Quackometer, last week. UNESCO to host meeting on controversial 'memory of water' research 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Primary school students are being experimented on with teaching methods based on “pseudoscience” and disproved methods instead of hard evidence, according to the president of the Australian College of Educators. Primary school teaching 'based on pseudoscience' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But in some areas of the store, especially their “health” section, Whole Foods wades deep into pseudoscience, So here are the three of the most egregious examples. The 3 Dumbest Things About Whole Foods Market 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z If this is the case, biology is finally shedding the lingering influence of pseudoscience. Should You Fear the Pizzly Bear? 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Critics have, from time to time, assailed the techniques as pseudoscience, though the medical establishment has come to accept the approach. Almost a Third of All Med School Grads Are Osteopaths 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The skull shows a faded phrenological map, a pseudoscience that purported to map skull shape to traits such as intelligence. The Morbid Anatomy Museum reopens, bringing lectures and mummified cat heads to Brooklyn 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z “There is a need to reject the pseudoscience and the shiny products people want to sell educators,” he will say. Primary school teaching 'based on pseudoscience' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z We hope that sharing our experience — and we learned some lessons the hard way — will help other investigators to join the fight against predatory pseudoscience. Stem cells: Taking a stand against pseudoscience 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z That globally popular dieting regimen elevated the calculation and tracking of calories into a weird blend of pseudoscience and ersatz religion, asking adherents to follow the numbers with unquestioning faith. Calorie counting leads to bad science and worse gadgets 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z And then, in the grand tradition of all pseudoscience, after offering no references or clear evidence of their assertion of a dairy-autism link, they move on to testimonials. PETA: Milk Linked To Scary Autism And Vegan Is Your Only Hope 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Hickey, who has embraced bogus and medically discredited pseudoscience in order to advance a ban on abortion at 20 weeks, is very concerned about “politicized medicine.” GOP lawmaker has so, so many questions about anal sex: “Is the science really settled on this issue?” 2014-05-01T21:29:00Z A walk down the health aisle at store in the Whole Foods grocery chain reveals a "shrine of pseudoscience", writes the Daily Beast's Michael Schulson. 'Dean of the House' calls it quits 2014-02-25T21:22:26Z Phrenology was a bizarre but popular pseudoscience based on measurements of the skull. Buttock cupping and other health 'cures' 2014-01-21T02:03:31Z To clinicians like me, one of the greatest online nuisances is the platform that the Internet provides to disseminate health misinformation couched in pseudoscience. We All Have Candida (And it's OK!) 2013-12-10T17:11:00Z He was, first and last, a debunker, and nothing irked him more than pseudoscience. Celebrations of Mind Honor Math s Best Friend, Martin Gardner 2013-10-29T21:45:00.387Z The irony is not lost on me that the current state of U.S. anti-intellectualism and pseudoscience television coverage is now being challenged by investment from the government of Qatar. The Return Of TV Science And Medical Journalism At Al Jazeera America 2013-08-22T12:36:00Z He also blogs about pseudoscience and quackery at dcscience.net Testing Treatments: how to do fair tests of medical treatments. If a medical cure looks too good to be true, it probably is 2013-06-01T23:03:04Z All of these rifts between science and pseudoscience are controversial, but sidesteps all the potential aggravation to get in on the ground floor. A Decade of Explosions: What Mythbusters Taught Me 2013-05-06T14:45:07.923Z In addition to the medically-inaccurate language defining life “at fertilization,” the new law also requires doctors to provide women with pseudoscience about “risks” associated with abortion. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signs sweeping anti-choice bill into law 2013-04-22T16:19:00Z It will be the genuine risk of wolves in scientists' clothing ushering pseudoscience past our rational guard. Susan Greenfield and the rise of the Facebook zombies 2013-04-08T14:44:50Z They pull in spam blogs, blogs with a science tag that have no science content whatsoever, as well as blogs that push pseudoscience, anti-science, medical quakery and other silly or dangerous nonsense. How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) 2013-04-03T15:45:20.820Z To be overly enamored of numbers is to be vulnerable to their misuse, a timely example being the pseudoscience of “value-added modeling” of test data — debunked by experts but continuing to sucker the credulous. How our love for numbers warps school reform 2012-09-21T15:30:00Z Science educators could craft websites that hit all the right switches, separating the science wheat from the pseudoscience chaff. This is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe) 2012-09-11T14:15:02.720Z Akin-like pseudoscience needs to be stricken from the conversation. Republicans do, in fact, care about the welfare of women. Republicans, think Todd Akin is your problem? Women’s issues are 2012-08-24T17:07:00Z And it is difficult for the nonspecialist to separate scientific research from the usual flood of quackery and pseudoscience. How Science Can Improve Teaching 2012-08-22T11:15:00.177Z One of your roles can be as a “downer” – the person who brings in a link to the scientific information that corrects the pseudoscience. How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) 2013-04-03T15:45:20.820Z Apart from debunking pseudoscience, much of early blogging was more educational than journalistic – covering decades of research on a topic, or explaining the basics. Science Blogs - definition, and a history 2012-07-10T15:15:03.537Z “Magic is also the primary force to debunk pseudoscience,” added Macknik. How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights 2012-05-15T15:45:00.197Z The draft is part talent grab, part matchmaking and plenty disorienting for players like Moore, who go from impressive college careers to being immediately plunged into the scrutiny and pseudoscience that is draft evaluation. Quarterbacks are on the NFL draft clock 2012-04-24T03:15:05Z But he was writing during a tremendously exciting time for science — he was a bit younger than Isaac Newton — as well as pseudoscience, like alchemy. Beliefs: Gary Lachman, From Blondie to Swedenborg 2012-04-13T23:52:33Z In fact, it made her angry: “I thought it was not only pseudoscience, but absolutely wicked in the way it preyed on people’s hopes and fears of death, telling them comforting fictions.” Titanic and the Science of Near-Death Experiences 2012-04-07T03:15:00.190Z So perhaps all those antiscience and pseudoscience blogs should also be preserved – they may be bad science, but they are an important aspect of today’s society and will be interesting to future historians. Science Blogs - definition, and a history 2012-07-10T15:15:03.537Z They outlined their concerns about what they called the “diminishing of the standards applied to the teaching of science in our universities” and “the increased teaching of pseudoscience.” Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching 2012-02-05T20:52:04Z What Freud described in that passage, Mr. Cioffi said, was an example of pseudoscience. Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83 2012-02-01T05:57:43Z Instead, what I’m trying to say is that pseudoscience, junk science, and anti-science are vastly different from views that use scientific fundamentals to challenge the status-quo. Huffington Post Science - interview with Cara Santa Maria 2012-01-20T17:45:00.200Z The main goals of the new initiative, according to the NCSE’s press release, will be to: * Help parents, teachers, and others fight the introduction of climate change/global warming denial and pseudoscience in the classroom. Education Group To Defend Climate Change Science 2012-01-18T15:33:10Z The article describes as "pseudoscience" studies used to support single-sex education. Under ACLU pressure, Missouri school drops single-sex classes 2011-11-23T18:51:30Z “We take the view that those universities involved in teaching pseudoscience,” the letter said, “give such ideologies undeserved credibility, damage their academic standing and put the public at risk.” Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching 2012-02-05T20:52:04Z Nor was there criticism of failure to expose the pseudoscience that underpinned the exotic financial instruments that played such a central part in both the boom and the bust. Science's attitudes must reflect a world in crisis 2011-11-23T18:20:09.483Z "People crave individualized, personalized science, but this is pseudoscience," said Greger, a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. Should blood type guide your food choices? 2011-11-07T16:46:04Z Back in the dark, old ages of the earliest science blogging, many of the most prominent science bloggers focused their efforts on debunking pseudoscience and battling the politicized anti-science forces. What is: ResearchBlogging.org 2011-10-19T23:45:09.653Z But the Queens prosecutor, Debra Pomodore, attacked the syndrome as little more than “pseudoscience” embraced by the defendant out of desperation to stay out of prison. Reporter?s Notebook: Was Barbara Sheehan an Abused Wife? Or an Executioner? 2011-09-26T00:50:51Z “For many of us, we’ve been concerned for a long time that in this most scientific of all ages, pseudoscience seems to be flourishing,” he said in a telephone interview. Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching 2012-02-05T20:52:04Z It’s frustrating to me because while I’m very much in favor of science-based medicine, and very much opposed to pseudoscience, I think that there’s something of a cultural bias – especially against meditation -that’s unjustifiably dismissive. The Absurdity of Homeopathy and the Danger of Too Much Skepticism 2011-09-09T23:27:24Z Let it be stipulated that, because they rested on economic or racial pseudoscience, Marxism-Leninism and National Socialism need not be taken seriously as variants of secularism. Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z “Intelligent design is creationism, wrapped in thin veneer of pseudoscience,” Davis said. Texas Education Board voting on new science materials, fight over teaching evolution fizzles 2011-07-22T07:11:59Z “Intelligent design is creationism, wrapped in thin veneer of pseudoscience,” Davis said at the start of the hearing. Teaching evolution up for debate as Texas Board of Education considers new science materials 2011-07-21T21:52:18Z Before that time religion had been much more a business of fetish, of pseudoscience, than of conscience. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Stossel added his own skepticism of possible financial pseudoscience in the form of active investment fund managers who claim that they can consistently beat the market. Financial Flimflam: Why Economic Experts' Predictions Fail 2011-02-22T13:15:05.557Z Nazi racism, like Soviet communism, was justified by appeals to pseudoscience. America in the age of primitivism 2011-01-18T14:01:00Z We’ve also written of late about Dr. Ben Goldacre, based in Britain, who debunks pseudoscience on his blog and in a column, both called Bad Science, for The Guardian newspaper. Prescriptions: What We're Reading: Dr. Author 2010-11-18T22:47:00Z A physician and science writer based in Britain, Dr. Goldacre debunks pseudoscience and promotes evidence-based medicine in his column in the Guardian newspaper, as well as on his blog, badscience.net, and on Twitter/bengoldacre. Prescriptions: Recommended Reading: 'Bad Science' 2010-10-27T18:07:00Z Back then, the motives for this pseudoscience were transparently political: restricting access to higher education and, especially, the right to vote. 'Delusions of Gender' argues that faulty science is furthering sexism 2010-09-12T04:00:00Z Homeopathy is pseudoscience. — hahnemann Though it sounds like yours needed the money-grab, I question the judgment of any pharmacy that chooses to sell homeopathic products. Leaving Your Hometown Pharmacist 2010-08-24T18:38:00Z Nevertheless, with de Grey as his main character, Weiner explores the fractured, fuzzy science and pseudoscience of immortality. Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner 2010-07-31T04:32:00Z Each person who undergoes the test may suffer consequences from it, even though most will never get any counterbalancing benefit. bioethics, ghostwriting, lung cancer screening, pseudoscience Medicare Panel Backs Prostate Drug F.D.A. Prescriptions: What We're Reading: Dr. Author 2010-11-18T22:47:00Z The 10.23 group believes the treatment is "unscientific, absurd pseudoscience" and does not deserve to be accepted as a complementary medicine. 2010-01-30T00:11:00Z Their successors, sinking into the agnosticism of pseudoscience, have thus sunk because they have abandoned the methods of science to adopt the methods of ignorant partisanship. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 I did not say that Phrenology was one of the pseudosciences. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor The subject in question is the old familiar one of false inductions or pseudoscience. A History of Science — Volume 1 It must be confessed that Phrenology has a certain resemblance to the pseudosciences. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor A Short Lecture on Phrenology Read to the Boarders at Our Breakfast Table I shall begin, my friends, with the definition of a pseudoscience. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor I proceed, therefore, to explain the self-adjusting mechanism of Phrenology, which is very similar to that of the pseudosciences. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor A pseudoscience does not necessarily consist wholly of lies. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor A pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, with a self-adjusting arrangement, by which all positive evidence, or such as favors its doctrines, is admitted, and all negative evidence, or such as tells against it, is excluded. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor The practitioners of the pseudosciences know that common minds after they have been baited with a real fact or two, will jump at the merest rag of a lie, or even at the bare hook. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor I did not say it was a pseudoscience. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor |
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